News
Recent and upcoming presentations from the SPRINT team
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the events below may be postponed, cancelled or moved online. We will be updating this page as new information emerges.
Cong has won the Summer Vacation Research Prize 2020, a competition held by the University of Kent. She will receive funding for her project titled 'Where does the beat fall? Speech-beat alignment in singing'. Congratulations Cong!
Amalia is giving a seminar on the Autosegmental-Metrical theory of intonational phonology at Humboldt University on 30 March 2020, followed by an invited talk, titled "The phonetics and phonology of intonation in the light of cross-linguistic evidence" at the GLOW Workshop on "Prosody in Speech Signal, Perception, and Gestures" organized by Marzena Zygis and Stefanie Jannedy (ZAS Berlin)
https://glowlinguistics.org/43/ The invited talk is available at https://osf.io/meetings/glow43hu/
SPRINT members are presenting their work at BAAP 2020; Amalia's paper (with Mary Baltazani and Stella Gryllia) is titled "Tunes and meaning compositionality in intonation"; Katie's paper is titled "Intonational marking of focus and topic in Djambarrpuyŋu"
https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/baap2020york/home BAAP HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Amalia is giving a talk at the Cambridge University Linguistic Society on 23 April 2020, titled "Intonational Phonology in the light of cross-linguistic evidence".
https://camlingsoc.wordpress.com/talks/ WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN AUTUMN 2020
Conference presentation at 24th ISTAL on "Meaning compositionality in intonation"; Amalia Arvaniti (with Stella Gryllia and Mary Baltazani)
http://www.new.enl.auth.gr/istal24/ ISTAL HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO OCTOBER 2020
Conference presentation at Speech Prosody 2020 on "Linguistic experience and rhythm perception"; Amalia Arvaniti (with Sumio Kobayashi as first author) https://sp2020.jpn.org/ WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE
Conference presentation at Speech Prosody 2020 on "The contribution of pitch accents and boundary tones to intonation meaning"; Amalia Arvaniti (with Stella Gryllia and Mary Baltazani) https://sp2020.jpn.org/ WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE
Conference presentation at Speech Prosody 2020 on "Segment duration and proportion in Mandarin singing"; Cong Zhang (with Xinrong Wang) https://sp2020.jpn.org/ WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE
Invited talk at Speech Prosody 2020 Satellite Workshop on "Representations in Intonational Phonology: How different is Intonational Phonology, and from what?". Amalia's talk is titled "Intonational phonology in the light of cross-linguistic evidence" http://sites.bu.edu/ripworkshop2020/ WORKSHOP WILL BE RESCHEDULED
Conference presentation at Laboratory Phonology on "Decomposing intonational meaning: tonal and segmental contributions"; Amalia Arvaniti (with Stella Gryllia and Mary Baltazani) https://labphon.org/labphon17 CANCELLED
Amalia is also a co-organizer of a LabPhon satellite event titled Forms and representations in phonology: in honour of Bob Ladd WORKSHOP WILL BE RESCHEDULED
PREVIOUS
Amalia Arvaniti gave a talk at the General Linguistics Seminar, Oxford on 10th February 2020, titled "Intonational phonology in the light of crosslinguistic evidence of variability"
https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/files/gls-ht2020-seminar-series-programme.pdf
Amalia in Oxford (photo credit Cong Zhang)